Office 365, Publishing Portal and Enterprise Wiki
When you setup a new Office 365 environment you will get a default team site. This team site will be auto provisioned, and might not be what you want. In a recent case we required the Publishing...
View ArticleWCM tip #32: Managed Navigation automatically trims draft pages
When working with Managed Navigation, menu items linked to pages that haven’t been published yet, are automatically hidden from anonymous visitors.One of the new capabilities of SharePoint 2013 is...
View ArticleWebNavigationSettings and CSOM
Whenever you create a new website based on a custom template you still might end up with the Managed Navigation enabled. I blogged about that a few weeks ago Custom web templates and confusing Managed...
View ArticleSharePoint Designer workflow runs twice
In a migration project from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 the SharePoint Designer 2007 workflows are migrated correctly. The existing workflows keep working as they did in 2007. However, when...
View ArticleDuet Enterprise features available on SharePoint Online
Yesterday I noticed Duet Enterprise features have become available on SharePoint Online. Duet Enterprise is used to provide access to SAP from a SharePoint Environment. The features consist of two site...
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Easy device channel switching using bookmarklets
When you are building or maintaining a public-facing website, device channels are a pretty awesome way to divide the authoring environment and the actual website. Basicly you have a (sort of)...
View ArticleSpeaking at the SPSNL2014
In a few weeks there will the SharePoint Saturday NL 2014 will be held at Hotel Vianen in Vianen. On May the 24th there will be a full day of SharePoint goodness. Last year I had the opportunity to do...
View ArticleConfusing content type name updates using PowerShell, Part 2
Recently, I blogged about renaming content types using PowerShell and how it gave us problems on sites not created in the en-US locale. When I was testing this, I came across a blog by Vesa "vesku"...
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Beware of styling changes after SP1
Recently SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 was (re)released. Most companies are planning to installed this update, but before it reaches the Production farm lots of testing is done to make sure everything...
View ArticleWCM tip #33: Managed Navigation is security trimmed for Term-Driven pages
When working with Managed Navigation, menu items linked to pages with specific permissions set are automatically hidden from users without those permissions.When building public-facing websites often...
View ArticleWCM tip #34: URLs between catalog items are rewritten to work correctly...
When working with catalogs and cross-site publishing SharePoint 2013 automatically rewrites links between catalog items so that those links work wherever the catalog is published.SharePoint 2013...
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Inconvenient searching Lists for pages with Friendly URLs
SharePoint 2013 Search allows you to easily find the content that you are looking for unless you’re looking for pages with Friendly URLs in the list view.Finding information is easier with search With...
View ArticleSpeaking at SharePoint Connect 2014
At the upcoming SharePoint Connect 2014 I will be speaking on building SharePoint 2013 portals and public-facing websites using the Single Page App approach.Modern web supports modern solutions. Lately...
View ArticleGetting ClientContext in worker Apps for SharePoint
When building Apps for SharePoint, ClientContext is the entry point for interacting with SharePoint. While most samples illustrate how to build it in the app, things look a little different for apps’...
View ArticleOpen SuiteLinks in a new tab and Chrome
In a previous post I wrote about Open SuiteLinks in a new tab on a solution on how you can extend the SuiteLinks bar in SharePoint by adding some script to the MasterPage. In this script I used the...
View ArticleLeveraging the SharePoint 2013 App Model for structured and repeatable...
SharePoint 2013 introduces new App Model for building customizations and extending the capabilities of the SharePoint platform. Did you know however that you could also leverage the new App Model in...
View ArticleSharePoint Saturday Holland 2014 presentation deck available
Last weekend I co-presented with Albert-Jan Schot at the SharePoint Saturday Holland 2014 on leveraging the new App Model for structured and repeatable deployments.The presentation SharePoint 2013...
View ArticleProgrammatically creating Site Columns and Content Types using the App Model
SharePoint 2013 introduces new App Model for building customizations for the SharePoint platform. The new App Model can be used for building apps but also in structured in repeatable deployments. Learn...
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Building the Isala folders Windows Store app
One of our customers, the Isala hospital in Zwolle, publishes information about the hospital’s various departments and treatments on her website by means of digital brochures. Together with Isala we...
View ArticleUsing the App Model for deploying Site Collections and Sites
Last weekend I had the opportunity to do a session with Waldek Mastykarz on Leveraging the new Application Model for structured and repeatable deployments, you can find the slides on SlideShare:...
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